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A Saint Indeed
A saint indeed: or The great work of a Christian, opened and pressed; from Prov. 4. 23 Being a seasonable and proper expedient for the recovery of the much decayed power of godliness, among the professors of these times. By John Flavell M. of the Gospel.
London: printed by W.R., 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
O that I might live to see that day! when professors shall not walk in a vain show, when they shall please themselves no more with a name to live, being spiritually dead: when they shall be no ⟨p. 199⟩more (as many of them now are) a company of frothy, vain, and unserious persons, but the majestic beams of holiness shining from their heavenly, and serious conversations shall awe the world, and command reverence from all that are about them: when they shall warm the hearts of those that come nigh them, so that men shall say, God is in these men of a truth.
O that I might live to see that day! when professors shall not walk in a vain shew, when they shall please themselves no more with a name to live, being spiritually dead: when they shall be no ⟨p. 199⟩more (as many of them now are) a company of frothy, vain, and unserious persons, but the majestick beams of holiness shining from their heavenly, and serious conversations shall awe the world, and command reverence from all that are about them: when they shall warm the hearts of those that come nigh them, so that men shall say, God is in these men of a truth.
Well, such a time may again be expected according to that promise, Isai. 60. 21. The people shall be all righteous But till we fall closer to this great work of keeping our hearts, I am out of hopes to see those blessed days: I cannot expect better times, till God give better hearts: doth it not grieve you to see what a scorn religion is made in the world, what objects of contempt and scorn the professors of it are made in the world.
Well, such a time may again be exspected according to that promise, Isai. 60. 21. The people shall be all righteous But till we fall closer to this great work of keeping our hearts, I am out of hopes to see those blessed daies: I cannot exspect better times, till God give better hearts: doth it not grieve you to see what a scorn religion is made in the world, what objects of contempt and scorn the professors of it are made in the world.